Year: 2001

Lemke Software has released GraphicConverter 4.2, a new version of its popular graphics software for Mac OS 8.6 and later and Mac OS X. As noted by VersionTracker, version 4.2 adds dozens of improvements and bug fixes, such as drawing of recorded points, improvements to slide shows, improved TIFF exports and expanded support for importing various graphic formats. GraphicConverter 4.2 is US$35 shareware.

Miramar Systems today announced the release of PC MACLAN 7.2.1 for Windows 95/98/Me, a new version of its software that provides Mac interoperability on Windows PCs. The new version adds “seamless compatibility” between users of Windows and Mac OS X 10.1, allowing users of both platforms to share digital devices, files and printers bi-directionally over AppleTalk or TCP/IP.

MacMinute has confirmed that Steve Jobs’ keynote address at Macworld Expo will be broadcast both via satellite and via a streaming QuickTime video Webcast. The official announcement regarding broadcasts is expected to come sometime next week, before the majority of Apple employees take their annual holiday break. Sources indicate broadcast media will be informed that the satellite feed of the keynote itself will run “just about two hours” in length.

In an amusing jab at Microsoft, the Dec. 17 issue of Newsweek features a two-page, inside-cover Apple ad for Mac OS X with the headline “The only thing we have a monopoly on is compliments.” The ad features the Mac OS X screenshot from the operating system’s box surrounded by six quotes from technology writers praising Mac OS X.

Boston Globe‘s Haiwatha Bray has written an article profiling Apple’s Jordan Hubbard, who was hired by the company earlier this year after a lengthy campaign by Hubbard to join Apple’s Mac OS X development efforts. Hubbard was one of the founders of the FreeBSD project, which Mac OS X’s Unix underpinnings are partly based on.